成人快手

This week there's another chance to hear Science Cafe's exploration of the mysteries of human digestion.

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The human gut has a lot to cope with. It鈥檚 a family of organs working together day-in day-out; a food processing factory that smashes and smelts our daily diet and turns it into the stuff of life. But how much do we really know about what鈥檚 going on down there? What鈥檚 happening to our breakfast, dinner and supper? And why do we eat what we eat, anyway?

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Adam is joined by Rhiannon Harris, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at Cardiff Metropolitan University and by Dr. John Morton, Principal Lecturer in Biology at the University of Glamorgan. We also hear from medical historian Lindsey FitzHarris who tells the story of Alexis St. Martin, a man who in 1822 was accidentally shot in the stomach with a musket and then spent years as a living experiment in human digestion.